A_Gupta, I agree with you. All this "Yalta-2" stuff is a byproduct of superimposing an ill-fitting historical template to try and understand a state of affairs that has a far more desultory and realistic explanation: sheer dysfunction & incompetence. Deep State Republicans have Trump t...

A good overview of the US' Grand Strategy and Foreign Policy under Trump... and also what is likely to follow if he gets a second term. https://warontherocks.com/2018/08/crisis-and-conviction-u-s-grand-strategy-in-trumps-second-term/ Among anxious commentators, the defining temptation of the Trumpia...

http://www.governancenow.com/news/regular-story/red-corridor-is-shrinking Red Corridor is shrinking The NDA government has effectively curbed Maoist violence Shishir Tripathi | July 3, 2018 As he completed the first year of his second term on May 24, 2010, the then prime minister Manmohan Singh made...

So India is already taking the side of the Israel-KSA-UAE bloc against Iran, though in a supportive noncombatant role: https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/india-on-gulf-outreach-as-injured-yemeni-soldiers-ready-to-fly-in/article24300859.ece Summary: At the request of diplomats from the UAE, India...

It has been a mistake for us on BRF to compartmentalize discussion on the "Levant Crisis" vs. "West Asia/Gulf" in different threads, because it produced a blind spot of analysis at the point of convergence. https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/israeli-saudi-and-emirati-offici...

Astonishing and detailed investigation by POLITICO https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/08/obama-afghanistan-drug-war-taliban-616316 The secret story of how America lost the drug war with the Taliban As Afghanistan edged ever closer to becoming a narco-state five years ago, a team of veteran U.S. ...

.. only an idiot can sanction such an adventure That's exactly why Trump is gearing up to do it: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/28/giuliani-gingrich-to-address-iranian-group-680627 Two close confidants of President Donald Trump are scheduled to speak Saturday before a controversial Iranian ...

https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/the-deepening-disconnect/article24281893.ece This is in the Chindu, but it's by Suhasini Haidar who appears to have done her homework in this case. Look at all the evidence that US (through initiatives led by VP Mike Pence!) is quickly kissing- and making-up wit...

The Clinton-Wilsonians who dominated Foggy Bottom for all these years are $hitting bricks at the thought of what Trump will "give away" to Putin on Syria :mrgreen: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/06/russia-syria-putin-assad-trump/564173/ One could imagine Putin offer...

RD, it's not nonsense. Wish you think.deeper. Most likely all those black projects are ready for diplay. Toeffler in Future Shock writes about 5gon plans to occupy nodal points in space. Ramana, "Future Shock" was written in 1970. Toffler had a lot of great insights for his time, but he w...

Given this was on undi-tv hosted by non other than Nidhi aunti, was the comment on "freedom of religion" in response to a specific question on it? Foriegn govt reps like nikki are trained to refer to foriegn President n Prime-minister always with proper title. This wannabe wasp who is ver...

We can hope for the best i.e. that Trump reaches a rapprochement with Putin such that CAATSA becomes a non-issue for us. But we are clearly a "secondary" player in the US' eyes... US policy towards India will be reactive to and dependent upon the outcomes of its policy initiatives towards...

Krisna, three things. 1) China is still there, even if rapprochement with Roos is reached by Washington. It has been projected as an adversary since the Obama "Pivot to Asia" days. As its power increases its profile as a military threat will only become more publicized. 2) Roos can be proj...

I think Nikki mem came to deliver some other message to Modi about Russia, China, and US. All rest is fluff. Namo Met informally two times with Xi Jinping. No notes. Namo met Putin same way one time. No notes. All we can do is speculate what was the complete agenda. DT met Xi Jinpeng quite a few ti...

It's coming. US canceled a long-planned 2 + 2 summit, scheduled for July 6, at the last moment (1 week's notice). With no postponement date proposed. "Unavoidable circumstances" was the reason given. You don't leave the EAM and DM of a major country hanging, at such short notice, unless yo...

Note that a last-minute postponement (1 week's notice) of a very high level strategic dialogue (just one level below a PM-POTUS summit) essentially amounts to Trump Sarkar spitting in India's face. On June 11, Trump signaled that he is targeting his trade war against India as well, accusing India of...

Excellent talk by Abhinav Prakash Singh for the Srijan Foundation. He lays out a roadmap for the future course of Indian Conservatism. In so doing, he challenges quite a few of the notions that have characterized large segments of RW thought in the past and present... pointing out why they could be ...

1) UN Report on "Human Rights Violations" in J&K, from a pure Hurry-rat/HM/LeT perspective, as ventriloquized by "Amnesty International". 2) Report of similar tone and content in National Geographic magazine in US, which in general steers clear of political stories. Oh yes. T...

Rahul M , If the moderators want to abrogate all discussion along the lines that have recently been taking shape, fine. I have a lot more to say on this subject but I will not. I would however ask that you (mods) discharge your responsibilities appropriately as well. Please delete each and every re...

To bemoan the actions of someone long dead and gone as some "root cause" of everything that's going on now is not merely intellectually lazy; it's also strategically challenged. The British ruled the entire effing country. If not Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, they would have found some other ral...

I would also ask readers to recall the Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati incident of 2008. Laxmanananda was a Hindu spiritual leader doing yeoman service amongst the Scheduled Tribes in the Ganjam-Gajapati districts of Orissa, the heart of the Red Corridor. The thrust of his work was not to reinstate fai...

I don't see anything of the sort. Ambedkar came from a time during which (as a direct result of British and Islamic colonialism, cf: Nicholas Dirks) the jati networks of India had been distorted by intense privation and continuous oppression into a frankly discriminatory hierarchy. Some people ended...

Hmm. I'm not sure a grandparent can be judged by the deeds of his/her grandchildren, even if they invoke his/her name as political capital. After all, how similar are Lutyens Naxals Tushar Gandhi & Rajmohan Gandhi to M.K. Gandhi? And how similar is Rahul Gandhi to Indira Gandhi? Not that IG or M...

Futt Gayee Rey.... The Great Western Alliance unraveling! Read and laugh :D BUT don't forget to pay attention to the underlying geopolitical implications. https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/under-trump-america-first-really-is-turning-out-to-be-america-alone Under Trump, “Am...

The Plight of Indian-American Immigrant Children https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/06/06/the_plight_of_indian_american_immigrant_children__137199.html?utm_source=spotim&utm_medium=spotim_recirculation&spotim_referrer=recirculation By Vikram Aditya Kumar June 06, 2018 This is a...

Maybe Babchenko was fine with it but he had forgotten to tell his SHQ that from now on she was Mrs. Johnson and they were all going to move to Londonistan with the kids. SHQs can wreck the best-laid plans of mice and men.

They did it out of sheer Pakiness (stage a hit and pretend it was yeevil Yindoos/Roosis, wait for Western MSM to take up the cry) Then they became aware of an imminent leak (with evidence), or maybe Babchenko reneged on the part of the deal that required him to adopt a new identity/pretend to be dea...

Take a bow Ramana garu. I think we can rule out zoonotic transfer. Even in Bangladesh it was difficult to find fruit bats that were actual carriers of NiV (they only found some bats which had antibody-based immunity to NiV, which suggests exposure but doesn't conclusively prove it). Even if they HAD...

Philip and Chetak, US want to use IN as their Indian Ocean Gungadin. All this COMCASA etc. are for them to use IN as waterboys. They would even hope to wear out IN ships patrolling the Pacific so as to not pose a threat to Pakistan. The peaceful military purchases (transport etc.) after IUCNA were ...

There is something specific about the S-X00 ADS that makes the US cr@p its pants. Remember how they freaked out and screamed "red line" when there was even a chance that S-300 may get sold to Syria or Iran. And right now it's specifically the S-400 sale that's being cited by the US in its ...

Despite all kinds of convoluted Chanakian CT defenses of how Trump is actually very clever, the outmaneuvering of DC by Beijing could not be more obvious. Trump had two choices: 1) Don't cancel the summit, and lose face completely when KJU cancels instead 2) Cancel the summit, and push SoKo further ...